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Japanese asked to recognise seafood testing
The National Agro-Forestry-Fisheries Quality Assurance Department (NAFIQAD) has asked the Japanese food and drug monitoring agency to recognise the results of quality testing that it does on aquatic products exported to Japan.
The department said it planned to reach an agreement with the Japanese food and drug monitoring agency on inspecting the quality of aquatic products traded between the two countries.
The Viet Nam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP) said that a team of inspectors from the Japanese agency had visited Viet Nam from March 14–19 to study hygiene and food safety practices at five seafood processing factories and seaports in the southern provinces of Phan Thiet and Binh Thuan.
VASEP also said that during a previous inspection, the Japanese agency had expressed appreciation of the hygiene and food safety systems at the processing factories.
The inspections aim to evaluate the management and distribution of veterinary medicine and to check on the level of chemical substances and antibiotics in Vietnamese aquatic products exported to Japan.
Since June 2007, when strict measures were taken to check the quality of Vietnamese aquatic products exported to Japan, the rate of products found with excessive levels of chemical substances and antibiotics has dropped from 4.6 per cent to 0.39 per cent.
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